Woman reports rape on Lady's Island

Special to Bluffton Today The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office released this composite sketch of the suspect in Tuesday's sexual assault on Lady's Island.

BLUFFTON TODAY

LADY'S ISLAND - The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office has issued a composite sketch of a man accused of breaking into a house on Lady's Island and raping a 22-year-old woman on Tuesday afternoon.

A woman said that just before 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, a man broke into a home near Sunrise Bluff and physically and sexually assaulted her just as she had returned home from work. The man assaulted her before leaving in an unknown direction.

The suspect was described as a black man in his mid- to late-20s, about 6-feet tall and weighing 160 to 170 pounds. He had a shaved head and has a small chicken-pox style scar under his right eye. He also has what appears to be a fairly recent pink scar, approximately one inch long, running vertically on his right forearm near his elbow. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans.

The Sheriff's Office is asking anyone with information to contact either Investigator Sgt. C. Wilson at 255-3409 or the Beaufort County Dispatch Center at 524-2777.

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